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Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain

Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban...

Author: Michael Gilson
ISBN: 9781789148602
Format: Hardback
$37.99

Unearths the British national obsession with the suburban garden.  Read More >>

Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms

Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms

Author: Arthur Westwell ,  Ingrid Rembold
ISBN: 9781526178787
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio...  Read More >>

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine...

Author: Sophie Vasset
ISBN: 9781526178824
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives...  Read More >>

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810–67

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians...

Author: Simon James Morgan
ISBN: 9781526178817
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678818
Format: Paperback
$47.30

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Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America, 1830-1930

Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America,...

Author: Jeremy Agnew
ISBN: 9781476692319
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment....  Read More >>

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica...

Author: Ann Brener
ISBN: 9781684581986
Format: Hardback
$82.95

"""Books Like Sapphires features highlights of Hebrew literary...  Read More >>

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and...

Author: Jason K. Friedman
ISBN: 9781643364698
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Delving into the lives of an extraordinary Southern Jewish family, Liberty Street meditates on the uses of memory...  Read More >>

Wheels of Her Own: American Women and the Automobile, 1893-1929

Wheels of Her Own: American Women and the Automobile,...

Author: Carla R. Lesh
ISBN: 9781476672779
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The automobile provided a means for Black, Indigenous, and White women to pull away from limitations and work toward...  Read More >>

Policies and Politics in Western Europe: The Impact of the Recession

Policies and Politics in Western Europe: The Impact...

Author: F F Ridley
ISBN: 9781032759722
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

Author: Emil Her Many Horses
ISBN: 9781913875480
Format: Hardback
$99.00

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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French...

Author: Anne Higonnet (Barnard College)
ISBN: 9780393867954
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of...  Read More >>

Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas

Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas...

Author: Linda Levy Peck (Professor of History Emerita) ,  Adrianna E. Bakos (Associate Professor of History)
ISBN: 9781526175359
Format: Hardback
$206.99

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678801
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History: Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest

Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary...

Author: Stefan Berger ,  Christian Koller
ISBN: 9783031528187
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book delves into the synergies between memory studies and social movements, exploring how social movements...  Read More >>

Great Scandals of the Victorians: Disreputable Stories from the Royal Court to the Stage

Great Scandals of the Victorians: Disreputable Stories...

Author: Debbie Blake
ISBN: 9781399091602
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Great Scandals of the Victorians features a collection of true stories that shocked, outraged, angered or simply...  Read More >>

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Author: Mary Jane Mossman
ISBN: 9781771125925
Format: Hardback
$135.30

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Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London

Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty...

Author: Lynn Hamilton
ISBN: 9781399054546
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Star Trek: Discovering the TV Series: The Original Series, The Animated Series and The Next Generation

Star Trek: Discovering the TV Series: The Original Series,...

Author: Tom Salinsky
ISBN: 9781399035040
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An episode guide to the whole of Star Trek, starting with the original 1960s series, and going up to The Next Generation....  Read More >>

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